In SerialThe Core: The First Guest (Book 1 of 3) Sci-fi Action Adventure Virtual Reality
Book two starts here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/46417/the-core-the-hive-daughter-book-2-of-3
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Kevin was just a normal 10 year old kid until he saw a woman vanish right before his eyes.
This made Kevin just a little bit different. He paid more attention to people now.
Little did he know that this little difference would kill him the next time he encountered another alien about to return home. It would tear him apart, cell by cell, until he was unmade. His mind being transported away.
So distantly far away there is a race that advanced to the point where they built dyson spheres to house their civilizations. In their continual expansion, they seeded galaxies with pods and connection satellites. Over time they upgraded their dyson spheres into matryoshka brain Cores.
Imagine a computer powered by a star.
Citizens of Cores no longer age once they upload their minds into the virtual living system of the Core. While they didn’t age, most still choose to cycle through life and death though at a different scale of time compared to our lives.
Citizens can visit other planets and live there as if they were on a "vacation". Mercury is Earth’s hub connected to the closest Core and Earth is a remote vacation spot for wealthy citizens.
When the main character was 10 he witnessed a citizen returning to the Core. The story continues 10 odd years later when he again witnesses a similar situation unfolding and manages to touch the person returning to the Core. This causes him to be swept up in the transfer as well and for his mind to join as a "Guest" user of the Core.
As a Guest he has limited powers, a starting balance of zero cr or Citizen credits, and no idea how he can get home. He is the first human to ever become a Guest of a Core.
Where money itself is the highest form of their science.
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Progress update:
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COMPLETE Stories:
✦The Core: The First Guest (The Core: Book 1 of 3)
✦The Core: The Hive Daughter (The Core: Book 2 of 3) The Core: The Hive Daughter (Book 2 of 3) | Royal Road
Stories in PROGRESS:
✦The Core: The Dark Enemy (The Core: Book 3 of 3)
PROJECTED Stories and Series:
★The Radiative Zone Series: The Girl with Powers (3 book series)
✶The Convective Zone Series: Into the Game (3 book series)
This series is a work in progress. Major editing will be done after each book is complete, so there will be typos and parts that need further explanation. Please, please feel free to point out any of these things. I will attempt to keep readers apprised of all changes and big updates.
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1. 1. The stranger at the grocery store
2. 2. Arrival at the Core
3. 3. New and old faces
4. 4. Xa the Third
5. 5. Time to explore
6. 6. Where to begin?
7. 7. Bangkok Thailand and memories
8. 8. Getting a job
9. 9. Discoveries
10. 10. What just happened?
11. 11. Cha-ching!
12. 12. Reality meet George my Alfred. Kevin meet reality.
13. 13. History of secrets
14. 14. Making Silver an Avatar
15. 15. Nightmares
16. 16. What dreams we dream
17. 17. Choices
18. 18. Loopholes
19. 19. The sister who simulates
20. 20. Knocked down
21. 21. The plastic bag girl
22. 22. The book of weapons
23. 23. The other side of the coin
24. 24. Sticky situations
25. 25. Leaving
26. 26. Lights out
27. 27. Thrown into the sun
28. 28. The Convict Games
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